Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author, poet and mystic rosicrucian. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone". A popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse.

This superb collection contains;
* 12 Ella Wheeler Wilcox Typed Signed Letters / Notes  (TLS)
* 4 Ella Wheeler Wilcox signed items.  2 Signed Post Cards and 2 signatures
* Ella Wheeler Wilcox Signed very long 2pp Manuscript Poem
* 27 pieces of Ephemera  -
* ALS from Ethelyn Bryant Chapman to Mrs. [Fannie] Junge, 20 December 1942, re her proposed book "Girlhood Days with Ella Wheeler Wilcox".
* 3 Framed items - Plate, two printed poems (same one)
* Copper plate of a poem entitled "The World's Need"
* 2 different framed colour prints of "Worth While" with troubadours
* Poem entitled "God and the Doctor", in a wooden frame, House of Art, N.Y., No. 214, n.d.
* 1 Book (owned by Wilcox and gifted)
This collection is on consignment with LDRB.

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Henry van Dyke was an English professor at Princeton University, a poet, short story writer, clergyman, and Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

This superb collection contains;
* Nine Autographed Letters Signed (ALS)
* Eleven Typed Letter Signed (TSL)
* Two Manuscripts;
* Six Autographed Signed Note (or Card) (ANS)
* 8 Ephemera
* 1 page article extracted from the Ladies' Home Journal, September 1904.
This collection is on consignment with LDRB.

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Isaac Chauncey (1772-1840). Early American Naval Hero of Tripoli and the War of 1812. Chauncey initiated an intense shipbuilding effort to establish an American navy in the Great Lakes, and by the end of 1812, the United States had full control of Lake Ontario and Chauncey was named commodore. In 1813, Chauncey's naval forces assisted General Henry Dearborn's army in facing the British army under Sir James Yeo. Chauncey delivered a number of victories including an amphibious attack capturing York [Toronto] on April 27, 1813, and an attack on Fort George, Upper Canada, on May 27.

This original letter is written to a G.B. Wilson of Baltimore, Maryland from the U.S. Navy Yard regarding whisky, a most important subject of the time. Chauncey writes, "The Commandants of the Navy Yard Washington have been directed to call upon you for the Whiskey required." Scarce and Twice Signed Document, boldly written in brown with usual folds. A great content letter...

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Unusual document of agreement between Trueworthy Palmer, father of Polly and Lieut. Richard Batchelder, father of William.
Terms include: "...shall pay Polly Palmer when she shall arrive at the age of eighteen years, two (crossed out) one suit of wearing apparal which shall be decent for Sabbath and one suit which shall be decent for every days were and also whereas the said Polly is now with child and if the child that she is now pregnant with should be living when she shall become to the age of eighteen to give her forty dollars but if the child should be dead when she shall arrive to the age of eighteen years, thern to give her the said Polly sixty dollars .
" The child is also to be taken care of until 14 years of age. Further: "...if the said William Batchelder shall return and marry the said Polly within one year from the date then he obligation to be given up to the said Richard with his giving her the wearing apparel as above mentioned...

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Sir Guy Carleton served in America beginning in 1758. He was governor of Quebec and commander of British forces in Canada (1775-77), during which time he repelled Montgomery and Benedict Arnold's attack on Quebec, defeated Arnold on Lake Champlain and re-took Crown Point. From 1782-83 he was Commander in Chief in Canada. General in 1793.

This appointment document is dated only seven days after the Battle of Bunker Hill in USA. Includes an uncoloured reference print of an engraving of Carleton, 7" x 5", Written in French, a watermarked, fine-laid paper, June 24, 1775, "Hait a Montreal", boldy signed (and handled) by Sir Guy Carleton...

 
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Colonial America.  June 7, 1768 - Dated French and Indian War period, Manuscript Document. This original one page, 7" x 9" letter form on period laid paper, Document is requesting the payment of £300 Sterling or "Halifax Currency." Interest will be soon accruing if balances aren't paid. It is Signed by Benjamin Cobb.

This letter is addressed to Henry Kneller, British Chief of Board of Ordnance in Boston during the French and Indian War period. It is a well written, in clear, bold brown ink and easily readable.

 
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[4] Three pages in a secretarial hand on single bifolium of foolscap paper (J Snelgrove 1814 watermarked paper) Docket title on final blank 'Private Timothy Leary 100th Regt tried at Montreal... No 4.' In red ink below: 'Laid before the P regent 28 Decm.r 1815'
Signed by 'Henry : C: Darling Colonel [...] President'; and counter-signed 'Approved Gordon Drummond' with the signature of Captain George Lowndes, advocate.

Leary is accused of desertion while on guard at La Prairie 'with part of his Arms and Accoutrements... and not returning till brought back by a Military Party disguised in the dress of an habitant'; pleads guilty; sentenced to death.

It appears he may have been shipped to NSW  aboard a ship, "Fame" in 1817 to serve a life sentence

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This letter likely a reference to Geo III's problems with porphyria, from which he suffered. George III had a particularly severe form of porphyria. His first attack occurred in 1765, four years after his marriage to Queen Charlotte. Further signs of the disease showed up in 1788-1789. From 1811 to the time of his death in 1820 the royal patient became progressively insane and blind.

Letter written to "Lord Sydney" Thomas Townshend, 1733-1800 ASL contents: Montreal, 14th April, 1789 and reads: ... "My Lord I have the honour of your lordships' letter acquainting me you had presented to the King the Address of the Lieutenant Governor and of the States of the Island of Gurnsey congratulating his Majesty on the happy reestablishment of his health which his majesty was pleased to receive in the most gracious manner...

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Circa 1916. Measuring approx. 11 x15 cm.. Very good condition. An attractive original photograph taken at Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.

This very handsome studio portrait shows three men, perhaps family. The man on the left, wearing a medal ribbon, and wearing riding trousers, is a Sergeant of the MACHINE GUN CORPS (MGC) the man on the right is a Sergeant of the CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE (CEF) significantly displayed are his three wound stripes. The older seated man, a Corporal, wears a General Service Cap Badge.

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Rare Original Albumen Photograph ca. 1860-80s  Joseph Bouchette
(1774-1844). The 2-1/4"x 3-3/8" photograph is mounted to a larger paper. Faded image in good condition. This is an early photograph of a miniature painted by John Cox Dillman Engleheart (1782/1784 - 1862).

Born in Quebec, Joseph Bouchette makes his traditional studies with the Seminar and engages then as draughtsman in his uncle, Samuel Holland, then land-surveyor-General of the Province of Quebec. In 1791, he becomes land-surveyor -- geometrician and enters the navy, where he will go up in guards. With the death of his uncle (1801), he replaces him by way of land-surveyor-General of Low-Canada, posts that it will occupy until his death in Montreal.   

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A carte-de-visite portrait, circa 1860, size 4.1 by 2.5 inches (105 mm by 63 mm),  of Charles Stanley Monck (1819-1894), 4th Viscount Monck.

Monck the last Governor General of the Province of Canada and the first Governor General of Canada after Canadian Confederation. Prior to Confederation he was concurrently Lieutenant Governor of both Canada West and Canada East.    

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HANDSOME EDITION IN GREAT CONDITION. VERY COLLECTABLE  
1815.  London, Printed For The Author, and published By W. Faden
 
First edition. 6-1/4 x 10 inches. xv, [1]-640, lxxxvi (appendix & index), (2 plate list, errata). Bound in later 3/4 calf with gilt titles, decoration and raised bands on spine and marbled paper, new end papers. Previous owner's bookplate Sir James Stuart Bart Chief Justice of Lower Canada book plate re-affixed to front end paper. All plates as called for on directions for placing the plates; 8 plans (4 folding), 7 aquatints and 2 tables are present.  All pages are uncut (deckled edges) and a couple of pages untrimmed with pages not opened. Right edge old waterstaining in border only to various degrees not affecting type to about page 156. Plates very good+ condition. List of plates;
PLAN Battle of La Fourche or Chateauguay
AQUATINT Fort Chambly
AQUATINT Isle aux Noix
PLAN Town of William Henry (folding)
PLAN Townships on the Ottawa River (folding)
AQUATINT Village of Nicolet
AQUATINT Village of  St. Thomas
AQUATINT Harrower's Distillery
PLAN Plan of the Route from Halifax to the River du Loup, on the St. Lawrence (folding)
TABLE General Table of Distances
AQUATINT Long's Farm on Lake Timiscouta
AQUATINT The Great Falls on River St. John, New Brunswick
TABLE of Distance from Montreal to Kingston
PLAN Kingston channels (folding)
PLAN York Harbour
PLAN Oswego Harbour
PLAN Map of  Chrysler's Farm

Bouchette was Surveyor General of Lower Canada from 1804 to 1841. His work, based on years of travel and observation, is of primary historical and geographical importance...

Price: $ 995 USD         #1585                     

KIRBY, William [1817-1906]

1859. First edition. 5-3/4 x 3-3/4 inches, pp. 178, [1] (Errata). Small 8vo, Original blind-stamped brown blind stamped cloth, gilt lettering on spine. The cover is soiled, spotted, crushed top spine and  with bumped corners. New end papers. Title-page vignette. Includes the final leaf of errata and imprint. A good copy of an interesting piece of early Canadiana.

Kirby was the Niagara customs collector and editor of the`Niagara Mail.'   Kirby's first literary work, preceded by a pamphlet of political invective in 1849.  A lengthy narrative poem about the United Empire Loyalists of Canada, and described by Morgan as "the most thoroughly distinctive poem we possess."  Kirby went on to become one of the best known Canadian authors of the last half of the 19th century perhaps best remembered for his historical novel, The Golden Dog (Montreal, 1877). Along with "The Golden Dog," "The U. E." is considered his other principal "literary work of note." (ELC)...

Price: $ 95 USD         #1490                 

SMITH, Adam [1723-1790]

1816-17. Second edition.  Edinburgh. Oliphant, Waugh & Innes

4 volumes, each 8vo, 22cm x 14cm, (8.5" x 5.5"),
Vol.1, x, [1]-525pp.,
Vol.2, vii, [1]-542pp.,
Vol.3, vii, [1]-482pp.,index[53[,errata,
Vol.4, [6], xvi, [1]-316, appendix[1]-88pp., index [15].
Full leather binding, quite worn and missing three of the four spine label names and all volume numbers on spine. Union Club library stamps (1 1/8" black ink circle) on a number of pages in each volume. Overall Good+ condition.

Smith's groundbreaking work on the individual's right to the free exercise of economic activity, "the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought" (PMM 221)
Smith spent the next ten years writing The Wealth of Nations (mainly from his lecture notes) which was first published in 1776.
An often-quoted passage from The Wealth of Nations is:
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages"

Price: $ 395 USD         #2168                  

LORD, John Keast (1818-1872)

1866. First edition.  London, Richard Bentley

2 volumes. 20cm  x 13 cm, (7-3/4 x 5-1/4 inches), iv, [2], 358; vii, [3], 375 pp. Illustrated with woodcut plates. Half red calf and boards, gilt-decorated spines, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, top edges gilt.
Each volume with a bookplate designating this volume came from the library of the aviation pioneer and founder of The Boeing Company, William E. Boeing, on front pastedown.

Complete with 11 engraved plates and vignettes to both title pages and errata sheet in each volume. Plates show a camp on the boundary line, Indian burial ground, various fishes, a group of Spokan Indians, the Kettle Falls, etc.

The valuable collections he made of mammals, birds, fishes, insects, and other specimens are now in the Natural History Museum, London.

His book contains an extensive overview of natural history in British Columbia, including birds, fishes, reptiles, etc.

Price: $ 275 USD         #4354                 

[WARBURTON, Major George Drought [1816-1857]]

1849. First edition.  London, Richard Bently

By The Author Of Hochelaga. 2 Vols.  
9 x 5-3/4 inches, Vol. 1: frontis., pp. xxxi, errata slip, 432pp.; Vol. 2: frontis., errata slip, 508pp. Original brown cloth boards corners bumped and boards slightly rubbed. Spine a little faded. Light foxing to frontis plates. End papers are printed ads from the publisher. Otherwise, in  good condition.
Two engraved portrait frontispieces one of Jacques Cartier, the Discoverer of Canada and the other of Major General James Wolfe.

Price: $ 75 USD         #1230                 

BUCKINGHAM, J(ames). S(ilk). [1786 - 1855]

1825. First UK edition. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green Bentley

27cm x 21cm (10.75 x 8 inches), xvi; [1] 669; pages followed by and advertisement for "The second edition of the recently published: Travels in Palestine. Map of Syria frontispiece , 28 B&W engravings at the top each chapter.
Overall very good copy.

Provenance: An ink inscription on the title page dated Toronto 1930 along upper title from  Meyer Rotstein (lawyer, d2004) to David Dunkelman (1880 - 1978),  (founder of the Canadian men's retailers, Tip Top Tailors) for  his untiring Zionist work.

A Journey from Nazareth, to the Mountains Beyond the Dead Sea, and from Thence Through the Plains of the Hauran to Bozra, Damascus, Tripoly, Lebanon, Baalbeck, and by the Valley of the Orontes to Seleucia, Antioch, and Aleppo.
From the Preface "The greatest attraction of the present volume, will, however, undoubtedly be its containing the fullest and most accurate descriptions of numerous ruined towns and cities in the Great Plain of the Haurin, the ancient Auranites, the very names of many of which have not before been made public ; as well as faithful pictures of the state of manners in these highly interesting and almost untrodden regions, which are likely to afford matter of agreeable consideration to readers of all classes."

Silk Buckingham ( 1776-1855) English MP, author and traveller, journalist in Calcutta, expelled from India for editorials against the government in 1823, later the same year travelling to Syria and Palestine in 1823.

Price: $ 875 USD         #1563                 

NICHOLSON, William

1816.  First edition. London, Richard Evans Whites Row Spitalfields

Folio, 39cm x 24cm (15.5 x 9.5 inches approximately) viii, 583, [1] p., [22] leaves of coloured plates. (3.5KG weight)
Rebacked a while ago with new leather spines, 5 bands, red leather label and gilt type with gilt 5 gilt decorations and 1816 date. Original boards preserved, new end papers.

A detailed history of the Napoleonic Wars. Very good condition and a nice copy. Includes 22 hand-colored engraved plates (including the frontispiece) of equestrian portraits in uniform of European leaders, some by Canton, Romney, and after Canton, Romney, and Meyron:
1. Britannia, Crowned by Victory... [frontispiece].
2. Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France. May 31, 1815.
3. Alexander 1st. Emperor of all the Russias... May 18, 1815. [Charles] Canton, del et sculp.
4. His Royal Highness, The Prince Regent of Great Britain. June 16, 1815.
5. Count Platoff, Hetman of the Cossacks. August 11, 1815.
6. Wm. Fred. King of Prussia. May 18, 1815. [Charles] Canton, del et sculp.
7. Field Marshall Von Blucher, Prince of Wagstadt. June 30, 1815.
8. The Duke of Wellington. June 29, 1815.

Etc (222 plates in total...

Price: $ 950 USD         #4333                   

House of Assembly of Lower Canada

Québec, Printed and sold by W. Neilson

17-3/4 x 10-7/8 inches, New leather spine with gilt type preserving original blue boards quite worn, new end papers, 495 pp.[1], 67pp. index [1]. Content on Canadian laws and political matters...

Price: $ 70 USD         #4216                    

SHEA, John Dawson Gilmary [1824 - 1892] & CHARLEVOIX, Pierre Francois-Xavier De [1682 - 1761]

SCARCE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT BOOK.

1866.  New York, John Gilmary Shea
First edition. 7-1/4 x 10-3/4 inches (18cm x 27.5cm)  - 6 volumes. Limited to 250 copies in Octavo. (iv) 286, (iv)  284, (v) 312, (vii) 308, (ix) 311, (ix) 256pp. with 4 facsimiles, 15 plates & 18 maps. Rebound in fine green quarter cloth over metallic marbled boards, top edge gilt. Ex library name stamp (5cm x 1.5cm) on title pages, bottom edges & once on bottom margins of each volume. Very good plus condition.

Translated with notes by John  Gilmary Shea. "The translation is more valuable for many purposes of research than the original work."- Larned.
TPL 189, Sabin 12137, Howes C 307.

Price: $ 500 USD         #1348                     

KEMBLE, Frances Anne (Fanny Kemble) (Butler) [1809-1893]

RARE WITH KEMBLE SIGNED NOTE INSIDE VOL. ONE

1882.  London, Richard Bentley and Son

First UK Edition 3 volumes. Pasted in Frances Anne Kemble signed note circa 1883 in Volume 1, page 2.
(2), [1]-288pp; 295pp; 422pp. Each volume has original olive cloth with gilt type on spine and decorated front cover and flowered endpapers. Overall all three volumes in generally good condition.

Signed Kemble note;  "Dear Mrs Roscoe - here is the ugly hand writing you do me the honour to ask for. Yours sincerely  Frances Anne Kemble  Lugano Monday 21st of August "

The letters of Kemble in "Records of Later Life "give a graphic account of this journey. Being accustomed to luxury and convenience,the English actress found the trip southward a torturous ordeal.

She was an extremely successful British actress, a dramatist, and diarist, the daughter and granddaughter of actor/managers whose mother was also on the stage. She divorced Butler in 1848, and was extremely critical of slavery.

Price: $ 190 USD         #1411                      

1835.  London, Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street.

SCARCE 3 VOLUME 1835 (2ND UK) EDITION

The story is a record of a continental trip taken in 1829.  This work is a record of two trips to mainly European destinations in England and especially Germany in 1829 and 1833.

Includes character sketches of famous or interesting people that Jameson met, including actress Fanny Kemble.

2nd UK edition. 190cm x 120cm x, [2] 320pp; vi, [4], 310pp; 317pp. Original leather spine and corner tips and marbled paper over boards.

Some spotting and spoiling in a few pages in each volume but generally and an attractive set in good condition.

Price: $ 175 USD         #2148                      

1895-96.  Kamloops, B.C The Kamloops Wawa

First Edition. Known as "The Strangest Newspaper in the World" The Kamloops Wawa [Talk of Kamloops]
CIRCA 1890'S COPIES OF FATHER LEJEUNES KAMLOOPS WAWA INCLUDES A COPY OF THE WAWA SHORTHAND INSTRUCTOR;
Vol. IV. No. 10 October , 1895,  #133, Vol. V. No. 1 January  , 1896,  #136, Vol. V. No. 2 February  , 1896,  #137, Vol. V. No. 4 April  , 1896,  #139, Vol. V. No. 5 May , 1896,  #140 (two copies, one poor condition) and Vol. V. No. 7 July , 1896,  #137.
MOST ARE IN FAIRLY GOOD CONDITION EXCEPT FOR A SMALL TEAR ON THE BACK OF 142 AND ONE COPY OF 140 IS VERY POOR.
PLUS: The WAWA Shorthand Instructor First Edition 1896 24pp + paper cover.

Found among these booklets is a B&W photo of a priest - Right Rev. Bishop R.J. D'Herbomez ? (1822 -1890) Reference is  printed image on page 13 of Vol. V. No. 1 January  , 1896,  #136

The newsletter was published by Fr. Jean-Marie Raphael LeJeune out of the back room of a church on the Kamloops reserve between May 1891 and Dec. 1905. Intended primarily for the local Aboriginal audience, most of the content was written in Chinook jargon with some translation into English and French. At its peak, The Wawa had a circulation of about 2,000 copies and was read as far away as France.

Price: $ 200 USD         #1240

1670.  Paris, au Palais, par la Compagnie des libraires associez au privilege
17TH CENTURY CICERO BOOKS ARE SCARCE
First edition. Volume #10 only of 12 volumes originally published.
6.5 x 4 inches. Pages: complete with all 499 pages in this Vol. X only; generally free from markings or foxing.
Tusculanae Disputationes is a series of books originally written by Cicero, around 45 BC, attempting to popularise Stoic philosophy in Ancient Rome. In  the sixty-second year of Cicero's age, his daughter, Tullia, died in childbed; and her loss afflicted Cicero to such a degree that he abandoned all public business, and, leaving the city, retired to Asterra, which was a country house that he had near Antium; where, after a while, he devoted himself to philosophical studies, and, besides other works, he published his Tretise de Finibus, and also this treatise called the Tusculan Disputations, of which Middleton gives this concise description:
"The first book ["On the contempt of death"] teaches us how to contemn the terrors of death, and to look upon it as a blessing rather than an evil;
"The second, ["On bearing pain"] to support pain and affliction with a manly fortitude;
"The third, ["On grief of mind"] to appease all our complaints and uneasinesses under the accidents of life;
"The fourth, ["On other perturbations of the mind"] to moderate all our other passions;
"And the fifth ["Whether virtue alone be sufficient for a happy life"] explains the sufficiency of virtue to make men happy."

Price: $ 150 USD         #2819                         

1842. Québec. W. Cowan & Sons

First edition. 19-1/4 x 15 inches to border lines.
Map, showing names property owners, streets and other points of interest. Hand-written addition with hand-drawn legend showing the portions of City  of Quebec destroyed by the two great fires, May 28th & June 28th. In 1845 a later printed a map was specifically printed to show these two fires. Reference table to buildings. Scale: 2.7 inches to 2,100 feet. Compass indicator. Drawn and compiled from original plans by A Larue, Land Surveyor. Lithographed by Allan and Ferguson for Robert Weir, Wholesale Stationer, Glasgow. Published by W Cowan and Son, Quebec, 1842.
Condition: Was flat now folded. Mounted to tissue with minor repairs made and some wrinkles showing, otherwise, good condition.

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1744. Paris, Ganeau

Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) was one of the most important and proficient French cartographers of the mid-eighteenth century. He was appointed the first Ingenieur Hydrographe de la Marine, and also Official Hydrographer to the French King.

11 Bellin 1744 maps listed below each priced and available individually or multiples  (not offered as a collection)

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1937.  Various
[Southampton, Quebec, Toronto, New York, 1937] - A mini archive commemorating Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's journey to London and Berlin at the dawn of the Second World War, featuring an album of photographs, a manuscript letter and a telegraph, from his return voyage on the Empress of Britain.

The album belonged to, and was compiled by, British politician Lieutenant Colonel George Oldroyd Borwick, who made the acquaintance of Mackenzie King on this voyage to Canada on July 3, 1937. The manuscript signed letter is written by King on the ship's stationery addressed to Borwick and dated 6 July 1937 while both parties were onboard the Empress of Britain. The telegraph was sent from King on 20 July l930 from Ottawa, to Borwick who was on another ship soon to make his voyage back to England. Album contains approximately 111 photographs and postcards mounted onto ivory cardstock leaves with locations captioned in manuscript, as well as the itinerary (abstract logs) of two ships, and one ephemeral menu card. Oblong 8vo. album measuring approximately 26 x 19 cm,
Canada's 10th and longest-serving prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950} is best known for his leadership of Canada throughout the Second World War (1939-1945) when he mobilized Canadian money, supplies and volunteers to support Britain, while at the same time boosting the economy and maintaining home front morale. Not long before the war, In June 1937, he had visited Adolf Hitler, the Chancellor of Germany in Berlin...

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First edition, first printing. Casson's Casson [volume one]  Square Regal Format. 13 x 14 inches. Pagination (34), (4), (100), (1) pages. Limited edition book this being No. 18 of 300 . This volume consists of 50 images (49 + "White Pine" frontis) with the last plate #50, [South Portage] lacking. Approved and signed in pencil in the white margin, the title and the artist name of each page. Each limited edition print has a heavy paper separator with gilt plate number printed on it and a separate tissue guard.  All working materials and plates destroyed. Volume includes ephemera of a separate certificate of ownership. Near fine condition for container box and near fine condition for the full leather bound book with blind stamped medallion in the middle of the front board and blind-embossed titling on the spine. All inside pages and plates inside are in fine condition. French marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Gilt stamped medallion plate numbers.

A.J.Casson and his wife Margaret chose 2 of their favourite Casson images of that year's work at the end of each year [thus thus called Casson's Cassons]. 2 volumes were created about 1989/1990 near the end of his life (died in 1992) each containing the identical  reproductions of these selected images. All were initialed by Mr. Casson and titled and identically numbered.
These images were printed in editions of three hundred and some of Volume 1 & 2 (perhaps only 60 copies) were bound into a large coffee table book with full mahagony coloured leather binding and extensive text by Paul Duval.
This Art book is on consignment with LDRB.
                                                                                    

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RARE LIMITED EDITION SET OF 39 HERIOT FRAMEABLE PRINTS

1973.  Montreal, Editions La Frégate
Approx. 25.5cm x 33.5cm (10 x 13¼ inches) Near Fine. 16pp, 78pp (image on every other page) , 6pp,[4]blank, not numbered however, the book version had 110 printed numbered and initialed  and 10 labeled HC.  Printed on heavy Carlyle Japan paper with deckled edges. Tan heavy card slip case with gilt symbol on front.

Most scenes selected are of Lower Canada and some Nova Scotia.
This set was obviously produced for the images to be framed based on the production versus the deluxe suede edition produced at the same time.

Hugues de Jouvancourt  [1918 - 1978] Canadian, Quebec Listed Artist

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